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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 11, 2009
- Total Downloads: 440,866
- Downloads last week: 3,942
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 355 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you've ever tried tracking down a process in Windows Task Manager, you know it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Process Explorer makes the job a lot easier. This freeware utility displays running processes in an intuitive tree format that includes not only process names, but also program icons and other data, such as description, image, and processor time.
It also can identify the process for a given application window or look up a process name in Google--a handy way to spot spyware. Additional features offer detailed information on performance, DLLs, threads, handles, TCP/IP connections, security settings, and environments. Despite its lack of visual polish, Process Explorer is one of the best Task Manager replacements we've seen.
Publisher's description
From Sysinternals :Process Explorer is an advanced process management utility that picks up where Task Manager leaves off. It will show you detailed information about a process including its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes, and more. When you zoom in on a particular process you can list the DLLs it has loaded or the operating system resource handles it has open. The top always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window, which you can close, depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in if it is in handle mode you will see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened, if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you will see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.
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Version: Process Explorer 11.32
"What should have been included in the first place!"
Pros: It shows what's behind the curtain in detail.
Cons: I had to go find and download it in the first place.
Summary: It has shown me what is killing my performance nearly every time. you can even do a trend on memory usage and cpu load for EACH PROCESS INDIVIDUALLY! I am totally in geek heaven!
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Version: Process Explorer 11.32
"Task manager not giving you enough info? Use this!"
Pros: Structured interface - use of shading to help display different items - includes program / dll descriptions - stable and portable program
Cons: Should come integrated into windows to begin with
Summary: This product is a must for anyone in this day and age, concerned that a windows service has been compromised? think that spyware is hiding itself amongst your services? Fear no more, use this to delve into all your services dirty secrets and learn w... read more >>
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